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Article: AAAI 2008 Fall Symposia Reports.(Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence's Adaptive Agents in Cultural Contexts symposium)(Conference notes)
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- AI Magazine
- Article date:
- June 22, 2009
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Adaptive Agents in Cultural Contexts
The goal of the Adaptive Agents in Cultural Contexts symposium was to investigate agents and environments for behavior in social and cultural contexts and for realistic adaptation of such agents to changing situations.
Computational human behavior models, in extending a conventional information-processing approach, face two complex problems: adaptation and evolution of behavior, and the cultural specificity of cognition. These fields are vast, variegated, informed by disparate theoretical and technical disciplines, and interrelated. This symposium was intended to examine the intersection of findings from the field, ...